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I don't think the connecting / disconnecting strategy will work, because it changes the UUIDs of the partitions. So when another disk is connected, the first one won't boot any more.

Yes,

something like that happened already ... years ago.
At that time I found a tweak with hints from Shador. I think I replaced UUIDs by....

Let's see!

As luck would have it I find myself in a somewhat similar situation, with no Live handy. I was able to use the install disk (on USB actually) as a rescue system quite easily by chrooting into one of the existing Salix installations and running lilo from there. First mount the target partition somewhere and do the following:
then
.... reboot.

I just did this and it worked (in fact I got the disks the wrong way round and just swapped over the cables rather than repeating the procedure); then I ran lilosetup within Salix. You may prefer grub.

Well,

I managed with to get onto my old system.
First I received various errors from Xorg, as I used the proprietary Nvidia driver before but its not working.
So I finally removed xorg.conf completely (all which were present).
So now I come to the graphical login, but then again no mouse, no keyboard.
Do I need to specify mouse and keyboard in a new xorg.conf?

My hope is to get in my old system and fix it from there...

Why huge.s? Why not the smp kernel? The problem you're having with no mouse/keyboard is probably because you don't have the non-smp kernel modules installed, you only have the smp kernel modules installed.

Well,

that was what I found on my 13.37 system before I followed the upgrade instruction...and what is stated on the prompt when booting
from the installtion CD.

Should I do something different then?

Or would it be safe to make a fresh install from CD instead?

Although I would loose some apps and settings...

Assuming you have an ssh server running, you can connect from another pc in your network and install the kernel-modules package.

Or, you could boot the hugesmp.s kernel, assuming that and the respective modules are installed.

Or, chroot from another system on the same pc (live CD/installation CD will do) and do either one.

Well,

thanks for all the proposals.

But I am a bit fed up and just making a backup of my /home files.
Then I will completey redesign my partitions and start from a fresh install and likely will give it atry with a multilib environment or so.
The chroot into Salix32 was probably a technical piece of cake, but I had to use it for just Softmaker-Office with some downsides as well (poor integration - not opening files by doubleclick).
So maybe a multilib is the easier way...

Thanks anyway.

You can get files opening by doubleclick using the switch32 script and custom .desktop files.

I could never get that to work...the switch script was ok but then....

What is behind the .desktop files?